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I have a time in string format, which is of New York. I want the time to be converted to UTC in Python

Input (New York Time in string format) = '2024-11-01 13:00:00'

Output (UTC Time in string format) = '2024-11-01 17:00:00'

Solution

  • Parse the time. It won't be "time zone aware", so apply local time zone, convert to UTC and format again:

    import datetime as dt
import zoneinfo as zi

zone = zi.ZoneInfo('America/New_York')
fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
s = '2024-11-01 13:00:00'
print(s)

# parse the time and apply the local time zone
nyt = dt.datetime.strptime(s, fmt).replace(tzinfo=zone)

# convert to UTC and format string
utc = nyt.astimezone(dt.UTC).strftime(fmt)
print(utc)

    Output:

    2024-11-01 13:00:00
2024-11-01 17:00:00